WILDOMAR: Farm animals highlight of field trip

Jennifer Sweeney, who teaches the first-graders and kindergartners taking the online classes, said the Online Academy students are having some great field trips this year. In addition to the trip to Elsinore High’s farm, the online students have visited a dairy, been to the Riverside Metropolitan Museum and also toured an Albertson’s supermarket, Sweeney said.

“This is great,” said mom Kala Gerlek of Lake Elsinore, who accompanied her kindergartner son Jase, 5, to the farm. “This is a neat little thing they have here. The kids are really enjoying it. It’s good for the learning, it’s really hands-on.”

Fourth-grader Malaquias Quiroz liked seeing the abdomen of a locust under a microscope. “That was cool,” he said.